The first release of the guylhem rom has been uploaded to externe.net/zaurus/guylhem-rom

Installation is as simple as promised, but it's a hackers only preliminary, as it's full textmode, you need to put qtopia on a SD, and the Fn/A keys have been inverted for qtopia. Yet I though it was overdue, and that's still a good working base.

You will get: - my latest fast kernel with squashfs - root in r/w mode with a cleaned filesystem - a single root partition - 58 Mb - only 12 Mb used, so you can install pdaxrom or whatever you want (say sharp qtopia-1.5 :-) - the new keyboard scheme to make internal and external keyboard work together.

Get the nandbackup and qtopia-1.5.tgz, then follow the instructions in README. Don't untar qtopia-1.5 in the flash - put it on a SD, since it's quite big : there's every application I have on my zaurus.

Attention : until the keyboard is fixed, I had to invert key "A" and "fn" in Qtopia 1.5 because someone hardcoded fn keycode value into qtopia binary libs :-( I'm working on a fix but it's not ready yet. Don't complain - there's nothing I can do yet.

The next release will be identical to that one except it will have the keyboard stuff fixed (hopefully !) and it will ship with a minimal qtopia 1.5 in flash.

I'm interested in any feedback - I will create a dedicated page and forum on externe.net which was attacked last week :-(

If you are satisfied or want to help, donation to paypal@externe.net or technical help is welcome. I'd be especially interested if someone could purchase a 128 Mb flash chip (the various company I've contacted won't export to France and won't sell a single chip either) to try some hardware upgrade on the 6000

PS: could someone who still has qtopia-2.1 flashed it make a tarball of it? I'm having problems with the initrd.bin from qtopia.net and I don't feel like reflashing again and again- I'd rather use that time to work on new cool stuff.

1. Put syst0006.dbk on a compact flash2. Open a console, type "sync ; reboot"3. When you see sharp logo at reboot, simultaneously press on D and Mbutton, then without releasing D and M, press reset on the back of yourZaurus, then without releasing D and M, press power button4. You will be rebooting into "Diagnostic Mode". Press on right buttonuntil you see "Nand Restore" then press ok ok5. Go and take a coffee.6. When it's done it will say "Restore... OK" and the bottom bar willbe green - you can now reset.7. You will reboot in command line mode. Type "root" to log it.Shift + Power will scroll up, Shift + Rec will scroll down.A long press on Record will open a new login shell if needed.8. You need a Qtopia in /mnt/card/ (that's because this version lets youchoose between Qtopia 1.5 and 2.1) : simply pick up which one you wantand uncompress it in your SD card formatted in ext2. If you want to put it inyour CF instead, change the symlinks from /opt and /home to/mnt/cf/QtPalmtop

This is the first and experimental release, therefore no Qtopia wasselected for you.

2. If you want to do that again at home#######################################

Read tweaking-parts.txt, create-jffs2-initrd.sh ; create your ownzImage1 and initrd1, put them on a Compact Flash and use updater.sh

In the next version, the application keys will be used to change betweenvirtual consoles, along with other small modifications.

very cool. it makes me wonder how hard a deb bootstrap would to setup given the less crazed filesystem. I guess woody would be the most convenient target--gcc 2.9 and all----. but real native woody on a z would be pretty powerful.

what would be needed?an x server that handled the interfaces correctly--how hard would that be--what would be the problems?what else? dpkg, debconf ? wget?. the idea that this setup can become largely "os" swappable is interesting

thanks offroadgeek - feel free to move that thread and the fast kernel thread to the new forum.

However I may still try to fix my forums anyway (if only to say f*ck to the cracker :->)

Don't take that personally - I'm very happy you provided such help, but I'm also strongly attached to ibiblio and I'd best like to have my work hosted there. [I am concerned about long term hosting, and ibiblio is king there]

This doesn't mean I won't participate to oesf forum - in the last months my forums where up and I was here anyway - I'll be happy to participate to both :-)

Thanks again for your assistance with my rom for the 6000. I hope it will help fellow 6000 users.